[fptex] ver 0.5 install problems - could not undump

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Looks like you have a corrupt latex.fmt.  You did remake it under 0.5?
(Actually, 0.5 is several months old, and I suggest you update the latex
sources before remaking.)

On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, ALAN A DUNWELL wrote:

> I have installed fpTeX0.5 from the ftp source on to an NT file server. I set my
> path to include proper locations but I'm getting a fatal on any attempt to
> latex. [NOTE: This is an install over a copy of my previous 0.4b and includes
> my modified texmf.cnf and config.ps files.]
>
> I see the following when I try to latex the standard base example file
> example2e.tex
>
> C:\XFER\TEXSTUF\sample2e
> >latex sample2e.tex
> This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2c 7.3.3.1)
> latex.exe: fatal: Could not undump 23225 4-byte item(s).
>
> Further examination with kpsewhich shows that the path settings and such are
> all OK such as
> C:\XFER\TEXSTUF\sample2e
> >kpsewhich -expand-path=$TEXMF
> c:\TeX;n:/Win32/TeX/fpTeX05/texmf;n:/Win32/TeX/fpTeX05/jilatex
>
> except for
> C:\XFER\TEXSTUF\sample2e
> >kpsewhich -expand-var$TEXINPUTS
> N:\WIN32\TEX\FPTEX05\BIN\WIN32\KPSEWH~1.EXE: unrecognized option `-expand-
> var$TEXINPUTS'
>
> which seems to be some sort of illegal option in fpTeX.

And everywhere else that kpsewhich runs!  You need a space or = in there,
and perhaps to escape $, depending on your shell.  (Yes, one can run
decent shells on Windows: I use tcsh.)  E.g.

[c:/bdr]% kpsewhich -expand-var \$TEXINPUTS
.;{c:/bdr/texmf,!!c:/TeX/texmf-var,!!c:/TeX/texmf_local,!!c:/TeX/fptex/texmf}/tex/{generic,}//


> When I do a debug check, my DOS window is not large enough to capture all the
> lines but I see
> C:\XFER\TEXSTUF\sample2e
> >latex -kpathsea-debug=2 sample2e.tex
> ....
> ....... lines missing here
> kdebug:hash_lookup(half_error_line.latex) => (nil)
> kdebug:hash_lookup(half_error_line) => 50
> kdebug:hash_lookup(max_print_line.latex) => (nil)
> kdebug:hash_lookup(max_print_line) => 79
> kdebug:hash_lookup(hash_extra.latex) => (nil)
> kdebug:hash_lookup(hash_extra) => 0
> This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2c 7.3.3.1)
> kdebug:hash_lookup(TEXFORMATS.latex) => (nil)
> kdebug:hash_lookup(TEXFORMATS) => .;$TEXMF/web2c
> kdebug:hash_lookup(TEXMF.latex) => (nil)
> kdebug:hash_lookup(TEXMF) => {$HOMETEXMF,!!$TEXMFMAIN,!!$TEXMFLOCAL}
> kdebug:hash_lookup(HOMETEXMF.latex) => (nil)
> kdebug:hash_lookup(HOMETEXMF) => c:\TeX
> kdebug:hash_lookup(TEXMFMAIN.latex) => (nil)
> kdebug:hash_lookup(TEXMFMAIN) => $SELFAUTOPARENT/texmf
> kdebug:hash_lookup(TEXMFLOCAL.latex) => (nil)
> kdebug:hash_lookup(TEXMFLOCAL) => $SELFAUTOPARENT/jilatex
> kdebug:hash_lookup(latex.fmt) => (nil)
> kdebug:hash_lookup(latex.fmt) => n:/Win32/TeX/fpTeX05/texmf/web2c/
> kdebug:hash_lookup(latex.fmt) => (nil)
> kdebug:hash_lookup(latex.fmt) => n:/Win32/TeX/fpTeX05/texmf/web2c/
> latex.exe: fatal: Could not undump 23225 4-byte item(s).
>
> which is not that much more informative than the very first message<g>.
>
> Any advice appreciated including suggestions on better debugging.

redirect the output to a file (in a decent shell ...).

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